Building Bridges

• said to Mama Lil by her friends, “ain’t no black woman doing no engineering”

• “get that backward idea out of your head”

• “ain’t never heard of no girls to be doing that”

• “how you ever gonna land a decent man”

• “chunky arms…navel on parade”

• “stooping to do a bunch of low down mess-work”

• “if God had meant you to do a man’s work, he would have made you a man”

• “if you put your mind to it, you could be awfully good at doing hair”

• “I don’t have many of my own dreams to go after…what little bit of dreaming I got left in me I am putting on you”

• "I do know I ain’t supposed to sign something I ain’t fully read.”